South Warwickshire (UK Parliament constituency)

South Warwickshire
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
County	Warwickshire
1832–1885
Seats	Two
Created from	Warwickshire
Replaced by	Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth

South Warwickshire was a parliamentary constituency in the county of Warwickshire in England. It returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

History

The constituency was created under the Reform Act 1832, when the former Warwickshire constituency was divided into two new divisions: North Warwickshire and South Warwickshire.

South Warwickshire was itself abolished in 1885, when the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 replaced it with four new single-member constituencies: Nuneaton, Rugby, Stratford-on-Avon and Tamworth.

Members of Parliament

Election	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1832	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir Grey Skipwith, Bt	Liberal	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir George Philips, Bt	Liberal
1835	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir John Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Edward Ralph Charles Sheldon	Liberal
1836 by-election	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Evelyn Shirley	Conservative
1845 by-election	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Lord Brooke	Conservative
1849 by-election	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Lord Guernsey	Conservative
1853 by-election	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Evelyn Shirley	Conservative
1857	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Edward Bolton King	Liberal
1859	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			Sir Charles Mordaunt, Bt	Conservative
1865	rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Henry Christopher Wise	Conservative
1868	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |			John Hardy	Conservative
1874	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Earl of Yarmouth	Conservative	rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Bt	Conservative
1880	style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Hon. Gilbert Leigh	Liberal
1884 by-election	style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" |	Sampson Samuel Lloyd	Conservative

References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 1)